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SUMMARY:Deformation theory - Jones\, J (University of Warwick)
DTSTART:20130108T100000Z
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CONTACT:Mustapha Amrani
DESCRIPTION:The ideas of deformation quantisation were first developed in 
 the\npioneering work of Bayen\, Flato\, Fronsdal\, Lichnerowicz and\nStern
 heimer published in 1978.  Some twenty years later\, in 1997\,\nKontsevich
  solved the most important problem in deformation\nquantisation by showing
  that any Poisson manifold has a deformation\nquantisation -- this was a m
 ajor advance.\n\nOne of the very striking things about Kontsevich's work i
 s the\nrichness and variety of both the methods involved in the proof and 
 the\nnew lines of investigation it has opened up.  The purpose of this\nin
 troductory lecture  is to describe some of the key ideas involved\,\ninclu
 ding  Kontsevich's formality theorem and its role in the\ndeformation quan
 tisation of Poisson manifolds\, and also some of the\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Newton Institute Gatehouse
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